# Transcode streams by using a liverepeater-edge configuration
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/transcode-streams-by-using-a-liverepeater-edge-configuration/36653
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcode-streams-by-using-a-liverepeater-edge-configuration/36653 "2015-09-10T06:27:49Z")
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### Author:  [@Vincent\_James](https://community.wowza.com/u/Vincent_James)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcode-streams-by-using-a-liverepeater-edge-configuration/36653/1 "2015-09-10T06:27:49Z")
I want to transcode streams by using a liverepeater-edge configuration. Pick a stream that the liverepeated-edge has incoming and transcode it back to our origin servers. I see it tries to do that by publishing 360p, all, etc to the originating origin server but that is no good. I use stream key authentication on the origin servers. Making a stream key for each transcoded stream isn’t a problem but how do I tell the transcoder to use a certain stream key in the above trancoder module example?
Thanks for your help!
Note: Originally asked via Reply in another thread. Decided this needed its own thread.
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcode-streams-by-using-a-liverepeater-edge-configuration/36653/2 "2015-09-17T15:05:02Z")
Hello,
A “liverepeater-edge” application does not have the Transcoder feature enabled. In order for the transcoder to start, the stream need to be published on that application. The “liverepeater-edge” stream type application is only repeating the stream from the origin source, whenever that stream is being requested by a playback client.
You should publish your stream on the origin application, transcode it through that application and use the liverepeater-edge application to repeat and deliver that stream (transcoded stream as well) to the playback client.
Zoran
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### Author:  [@Vincent\_James](https://community.wowza.com/u/Vincent_James)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcode-streams-by-using-a-liverepeater-edge-configuration/36653/3 "2015-09-19T00:13:33Z")
I have hardware dedicated to transcoding and hardware dedicated to origin servers. The hardware on the origin servers is not capable of transcoding which is why I want to transcode using a repeater edge configuration. This doesn’t seem like too much to ask of the wowza engine.
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### Author:  [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcode-streams-by-using-a-liverepeater-edge-configuration/36653/4 "2015-09-29T20:12:06Z")
Hi,
You would need to manually enable the edge application, outside of the Manager, as this isn’t a commonly used configuration.
This article, [How to use the Wowza Transcoder on a Liverepeater edge](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-wowza-transcoder-on-a-live-stream-repeater-edge), does briefly describe how to do this.
Daren